adj
Meaning 1
Large in body; fat; overweight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- corpulent person
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
corpulent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːpjələnt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːpjʊlənt/
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General-American: /ˈkoɹpjəlɪnt/
adj
Meaning 2
Physical, material, corporeal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
excessively fat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a weighty man
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: obese, weighty, rotund
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: تخين (tiḵīn) — large in body; fat
- Arabic: سمين (samīn) — large in body; fat
- Bengali: মোটা (mōṭa) — large in body; fat
- Bulgarian: пълен (pǎlen) — large in body; fat
- Bulgarian: тлъст (tlǎst) — large in body; fat
- Bulgarian: месест (mesest) — large in body; fat
- Chinese Mandarin: 胖 (pàng) — large in body; fat
- Chinese Mandarin: 肥胖 (féipàng) — large in body; fat
- Esperanto: korpulenta — large in body; fat
- French: corpulent — large in body; fat
- German: korpulent — large in body; fat
- German: beleibt — large in body; fat
- Greek: παχύσαρκος (pachýsarkos) — large in body; fat
- Hindi: मोटा (moṭā) — large in body; fat
- Hungarian: korpulens — large in body; fat
- Icelandic: feitur — large in body; fat
- Icelandic: feitlaginn — large in body; fat
- Japanese: 肥満 (himan) — large in body; fat
- Latin: corpulentus — large in body; fat
- Latin: obesus — large in body; fat
- Plautdietsch: forsch — large in body; fat
- Polish: korpulentny — large in body; fat
- Portuguese: corpulento — large in body; fat
- Romanian: corpolent — large in body; fat
- Russian: по́лный (pólnyj) — large in body; fat
- Russian: ту́чный (túčnyj) — large in body; fat
- Russian: доро́дный (doródnyj) — large in body; fat
- Russian: жи́рный (žírnyj) — large in body; fat
- Russian: то́лстый (tólstyj) — large in body; fat
- Russian: корпуле́нтный (korpuléntnyj) — large in body; fat
- Serbo-Croatian: корпулентно — large in body; fat
- Serbo-Croatian: корпулентан — large in body; fat
- Serbo-Croatian: korpulentno — large in body; fat
- Serbo-Croatian: korpulentan — large in body; fat
- Spanish: corpulento — large in body; fat
- Tocharian B: kraupalñetstse — large in body; fat
- Turkish: semiz — large in body; fat
- Turkish: etli butlu — large in body; fat
- Turkish: şişman — large in body; fat
- Turkish: besili — large in body; fat
- Turkish: yağlı — large in body; fat
- Turkish: etli — large in body; fat
- Turkish: dolgun — large in body; fat
- Turkish: balıketli — large in body; fat
- Turkish: etine dolgun — large in body; fat
- Ottoman Turkish: سمیز (semiz) — large in body; fat
- Ottoman Turkish: شیشمان (şişman) — large in body; fat
- Urdu: موٹا (moṭā) — large in body; fat
- Uyghur: ئەتلىك (etlik) — large in body; fat
- Uyghur: سېمىز (sëmiz) — large in body; fat